Tag Archives: ZooKeeper

Four Letter Words (acronym as 4lw) is a very popular feature of the Apache ZooKeeper project. In a nutshell, 4lw is a set of commands that you can use to interact with a ZooKeeper ensemble through a shell interface. Because it’s simple and easy to use, lots of ZooKeeper monitoring solutions are built on top of 4lw.

The simplicity of 4lw comes at a cost: the design did not originally consider security,

Kudu (currently in beta), the new storage layer for the Apache Hadoop ecosystem, is tightly integrated with Impala, allowing you to insert, query, update, and delete data from Kudu tablets using Impala’s SQL syntax, as an alternative to using the Kudu APIs to build a custom Kudu application. In addition, you can use JDBC or ODBC to connect existing or new applications written in any language,

Bet you didn’t know this: In some cases, Solr offers lightning-fast response times for business-style queries.

If you were to ask well informed technical people about use cases for Solr, the most likely response would be that Solr (in combination with Apache Lucene) is an open source text search engine: one can use Solr to index documents, and after indexing, these same documents can be easily searched using free-form queries in much the same way as you would query Google.

YCSB, the open standard for comparative performance evaluation of data stores, is now available to CDH users for their Apache HBase deployments via new packages from Cloudera Labs.

Many factors go into deciding which data store should be used for production applications, including basic features, data model, and the performance characteristics for a given type of workload. It’s critical to have the ability to compare multiple data stores intelligently and objectively so that you can make sound architectural decisions.

This post contains answers to common questions about deploying and configuring Apache Kafka as part of a Cloudera-powered enterprise data hub.

Cloudera added support for Apache Kafka, the open standard for streaming data, in February 2015 after its brief incubation period in Cloudera Labs. Apache Kafka now is an integrated part of CDH, manageable via Cloudera Manager, and we are witnessing rapid adoption of Kafka across our customer base.